This page will try to guide you how to configure Archlinux distribution on HP Pavillion dv5-1000 series laptop. The main purpose of this howto is the post installation configuration and installing additional pakages to make the basic installation useful. If you have something to add please contribute to this page.

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== Installation ==

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=Introduction=

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Archlinux installation is easy and there is palnty of information availabe from this Wiki. I will suggest using these documentation for the basic installation. you should also install a desktop environment. I will give some details here for gnome destop and detail instruction use the wiki search function. Vist this useful site [http://arcux.com miggols99's blog].

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On this page, I'll try to guide you how to configure Archlinux distribution on HP Pavillion dv5-1000 series laptop. The main purpose of this howto is the post installation configuration and installing additional pakages to make the basic installtion useful. If you have something to add please contribute to this page.

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=Installation=

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== Configurations==

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Archlinux installation is easy and there is palnty of information availabe from this Wiki. I will suggest using these documentation for the basic installation. you should also install a desktop environment. I will give some details here for gnome destop and detail instruction use the wiki search function. Vist this useful site [http://arcux.com miggols99's blog].

HP Pavilion dv5-1000 have a Mobile X4500MHD Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller, so you must have the package <code>xf86-video-intel</code> installed. If it is not already installed then install it as follows:

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sudo pacman -Sy f86-video-intel

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</code>

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in order to configure the card properly you must use intel as Driver in Device section of xorg.conf file e.g. my xorg.conf file look like this.

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HP Pavilion dv5-1000 have a Mobile X4500MHD Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller, so you must have the package {{Pkg|xf86-video-intel}} [[pacman|installed]].

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in order to configure the card properly you must use intel as Driver in Device section of xorg.conf file e.g. my xorg.conf file look like this. (as of nowadays - 2010 - xserver 1.8+ uses KMS for intel, so no xorg.conf file is needed - suggest removing this whole section):

Making the sound system work gaves me tuff time and after words an inspiration for writing this Wiki article. you need Alsa pakages to make it work so first of all install these pakages:

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pacman -Sy alsa-lib alsa-utils alsa-oss

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Now edit the file /etc/modprobe.d/sound with a text editor if the file does not exist then create one and add the following at the start:

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options snd-hda-intel model=hp-m4

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options snd-hda-intel enable_msi=1

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options snd slots=snd-hda-intel

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alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel

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alias sound-slot-0 snd-hda-intel

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if the /etc/modprobe.d/sound already contain some options it is better to remove it. after making the above changes reboot. when the system become functional again make sure that you unmute the front speakers then test the sound by playing some media file.

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alsamixer

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alsactl store

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while running alsamixer use F4 function key. you can add "alsactl restore" to your rc.local file to restore sound setting after bootup.

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=Tweaking=

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You need Alsa pakages to make sound work so first of all install {{Pkg|alsa-lib}}, {{Pkg|alsa-utils}} and {{Pkg|alsa-oss}}.

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Now edit the file {{ic|/etc/modprobe.d/sound}} with a text editor if the file does not exist then create one and add the following at the start:

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options snd-hda-intel model=hp-m4

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options snd-hda-intel enable_msi=1

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options snd slots=snd-hda-intel

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alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel

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alias sound-slot-0 snd-hda-intel

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If the file {{ic|/etc/modprobe.d/sound}} already contain some options it is better to remove them. After making the above changes reboot when the system become functional again make sure that you unmute the front speakers and then test the sound by playing some media file.

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alsamixer

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alsactl store

Revision as of 13:52, 29 October 2013

This page will try to guide you how to configure Archlinux distribution on HP Pavillion dv5-1000 series laptop. The main purpose of this howto is the post installation configuration and installing additional pakages to make the basic installation useful. If you have something to add please contribute to this page.

Contents

Installation

Archlinux installation is easy and there is palnty of information availabe from this Wiki. I will suggest using these documentation for the basic installation. you should also install a desktop environment. I will give some details here for gnome destop and detail instruction use the wiki search function. Vist this useful site miggols99's blog.

Graphic card and Xorg

HP Pavilion dv5-1000 have a Mobile X4500MHD Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller, so you must have the package xf86-video-intelinstalled.

in order to configure the card properly you must use intel as Driver in Device section of xorg.conf file e.g. my xorg.conf file look like this. (as of nowadays - 2010 - xserver 1.8+ uses KMS for intel, so no xorg.conf file is needed - suggest removing this whole section):

If the file /etc/modprobe.d/sound already contain some options it is better to remove them. After making the above changes reboot when the system become functional again make sure that you unmute the front speakers and then test the sound by playing some media file.